Ferrara Rationalism RoadBook — Four Stops from Savonuzzi’s Addizione to Rossoni’s Tresigallo (1928–1939)

Between the wars Ferrara rebuilt a good part of itself, and much of it was drawn by one municipal engineer. Three stops in the city are Carlo Savonuzzi’s. The Stadio Paolo Mazza, inaugurated on 20 September 1928 as the Stadio Littorio Comunale, is among the oldest grounds still in use in Italy. The monumental aqueduct on Piazza XXIV Maggio, designed between 1930 and 1932, is the most theatrical piece of infrastructure the period left here. The Scuola Alda Costa, built in red brick between 1932 and 1933, is the plainest of the three. The fourth stop is twenty-five kilometres east, out on the plain: Tresigallo, Edmondo Rossoni’s new town of 1933–39, the most intact foundation town of the rationalist period. The same decade at two scales — a city repairing itself, and a town invented from nothing. Stefano Vigolo tells the full story in a separate article.